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1985 Apr 25 - 1985 Sep 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1468
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Bonn) (Part 19)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 412
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85 May 4 Sat G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary session) [Political Declaration: environment, new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary - heads of government) [Middle East, anniversary of WWII, economic recovery, trade] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary) [trade and monetary policy, aid for Africa] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tue G7: Charles Powell to Bernard Ingham (call from Kohl's office) [Germans "in a bit of a flap" after prematurely announcing MT-Kohl meeting at Chequers] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 1 Wed G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Soviet air space reservations in the Berlin air corridors") [MT content with Howe pursuing preservation of Allied rights, but wants to be consulted before any major decision is taken] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 1 Wed G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [draft declaration - MT "finds the French objection to any reference to the United States in the context of the Geneva talks petty to a degree"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 1 Wed G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilaterals") [briefs for meetings with Craxi, Mitterrand] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-McFarlane: "IDU Meeting in Washington") [MT "was clearly taken aback to hear that the President knew nothing of the meeting and commented that a certain amount of 'leverage' appeared to be going on"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: FCO minute to Robert Armstrong ("New GATT Round: Agriculture") [EC statement - a hard-fought compromise, best avoid all reference to agriculture in G7 economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tue G7: No.10 briefing for MT ('Supplementaries') [economy, environment, Africa, foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 6 Mon G7: Powell letter to German Ambassador to the UK (Helmut Kohl speech at Bergen-Belsen) [MT "pleased to have the opportunity to read the full text of this"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 6 Mon G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (Kohl Bundestag speech on Bonn Economic Summit final declaration) [political declaration; SDI; drug problem] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tue G7: MT message to Helmut Kohl (thank you for Summit arrangements) ["a pity that not all of us were able to agree on setting a target date" for new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon G7: MT message to General Ershad (Bonn Economic Summit) ["the problems of developing countries... were very much in our minds during the Summit"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon G7: MT message to UN Secretary-General (Bonn Economic Summit) ["the main contribution we as industrialised countries could make to world prosperity was to promote sustained growth and higher employment in our own economies"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon G7: MT message to Julio Maria Sanguinette (Bonn Economic Summit) [attendees "recognised and agreed that a lasting solution" to the problem of Latin American debt "can only be achieved if all those involved continue in their constructive co-operation"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 15 Wed G7: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) ["This political declaration is a source of great encouragement to me and the Korean people in our continued effort for the peaceful unification through direct dialogue between the north and the south"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 4 Sat G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand bilateral) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Channel link, European fighter aircraft, European Community, new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]